In an effort to decrease maintenance costs from its legacy payroll system, full service manufacturer Wisconsin Plastics, Inc. (WPI) chose to implement the payroll and time and attendance modules offered by its enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendor. Read this case study to learn about the rapid return on investment that WPI experienced. 

This brief paper outlines how Cognos FSR automates and streamlines the financial statement reporting (FSR) production process by gathering and connecting information from a variety of sources to construct an application database of all of your data. Learn how to overcome the challenges of scalability, process accuracy, increased workloads and more. 

Read this brief paper and learn how IBM Cognos can lead finance teams into the next generation by offering driver-based budgeting with vastly shorter planning cycles, flexible rolling forecasts, faster and more reliable financial close and consolidation, tighter control over operational performance, swifter reporting capabilities and so much more. 

In this white paper, learn how the right financial consolidation solution can help you replace silos of inconsistent data with the information and analytic capabilities you need for actionable insight. 

The challenge for Chief Compliance Officers is to understand the risks associated with each of these three drivers of compliance and how they can be mitigated. Read this paper to find out more. 

The UK public sector is in the midst of a period of transformation and improving citizen engagement will be key to the success of this change. 

The Jericho Forum has been described in a crude way as ‘those people who want to get rid offirewalls’. That’s not strictly accurate – Jericho believes that protection should be appliedclose to data (JFC#1, JFC#9)1, and that firewalls should just be ‘quality of serviceseparators’. 

SQL Server 2008 R2 has been labeled a BI release because of its new features for business intelligence. In this interactive classroom, industry expert Don Jones explains the improvements made to existing SQL Server BI features like SSRS. Learn about the benefits of self-service BI and Master Data Services. Then take a quiz to test your knowledge. 

This SearchSQLServer.com E-Guide offers expert insight about what organizations can do to improve the performance of their BI system and new ways to improve BI performance and scalability. In addition, you'll learn how to meet BI performance challenges. 

This paper outlines some of the most common questions regarding BI and analytics and provides recommendations and best practices for improving your strategy. 

Business intelligence (BI) tools can now provide deeper analytical capability, easier use, and faster speed than ever. But exploiting this power isn't as simple as you might think. Read this white paper to learn best practices for setting up a successful BI strategy within your organization. 

There may be a lot of recent innovations to data technologies but the best approach is to determine whether you can utilize these new tools for your current BI, analytics and data management strategies. This issue of BI Trends + Strategies features advice from industry experts including, Claudia Imhoff, Colin White, and Lyndsay Wise. 

Decision-making is buoyed by strong business intelligence (BI). For small to midsize businesses (SMBs), formulating an approach to BI can be a challenge. Incremental steps are pivotal for SMBs, according to this paper featuring insight from Gartner. Read this and learn why starting with the basic before evolving deeper is the proven path.